CRISTOFORO COLOMBO training vessel.

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Built as a sailing training vessel for the Italian Navy by Cantiere Navali di Castellammare di Stabia.
15 April 1926 keel laid down.
04 April 1928 launched as CRISTOFORO COLOMBO, one sister the AMERIGO VESPUCCI.
Tonnage 4,146 grt, 1,202 net, 3,410 dwt., dim. 100.5 x 15.5 x 7m. (draught), length bpp. 82.4m.
Sail area 2,824 m².
Two auxiliary diesel engines, 1,600 hp, twin screws, speed 10 knots.
Armament 4 – 70/40 guns and 4 MG.
Crew circa 400 including trainees.
01 July 1928 completed.

The ship was designed by General Lieutenant Francesco Rotundi of the Italian Navy. She was designed as a late 18th-century 74 cannon ship-of-the-line.
Before World War II regular used for training voyages in the Mediterranean and to Northern Europe waters sometimes independently or together with her sister.
Altogether she undertook nine lengthy training cruises before the war.
During World War II most probably laid up.
After the war ceded to the Soviet Union and she was handed over at Odessa after sailing from Italy with a merchant crew in 1949.
Renamed in DUNAJ named after the Danube River, her black hull was painted gray and assigned to the 78th Training Brigade, based at Odessa, she made occasional training voyages in the Black Sea until 1959.
Then owned by Navy Department School in Leningrad who in 1960 transferred her to the Nautical Institute of Odessa.
1961 There were plans for a major maintenance but which never started. Only her masts were removed.
She was thereafter mostly used as a transport ship to carry timber until 1963.
1963 Got on fire in Soviet waters, after the fire was extinguished she was declared unseaworthy and she was stricken from the ships list.
The DUNAJ was abandoned and left unattended the next 8 year.
1971 Was she finally demolished.

North Korea 1983 80ch sgMSN2319, scott?
Togo 2018 800 sg?, scott?

Source: Wikipedia.